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The Tascam CD-A580
The Tascam CD-A580 is a device that will convert cassee tapes
to MP3 formats stored onto a ash drive. It will also digize CD’s
to MP3, and will allow users to create cassee tapes. The Tascam
does not “burn” CD’s.
Getting Started
Bring a ash drive large enough to store music from your cassee
Music les are roughly 10MB per minute—one hour cassee tape will need about 600MB of free
space
Call Elmhurst Public Library to reserve Creave Studio B for an adequate amount of me
The machine converts in real-me, so 1 hour of music will take 1 hour to convert
How to Transfer Songs from a Cassette to a USB Drive
Load the cassee into the Tascam and place the USB drive into the port on the machine
Press the SOURCE buon repeatedly to select Tape
It will scroll between CD, TAPE, or LINE
3. Press the RECORD USB buon to prepare the USB for recording
The red indicator above the RECORD USB buon and the REC icon on the display will blink
Preparaon for USB recording takes a few seconds. USB ash drives with larger capacies might take
more me. When “Record Prepare” is shown during preparaon, pressing buons will have no eect
5. Before recording, adjust the recording level. Failure to do so could cause the recorded sound to be
distorted or noisy
Play the source (cassee tape) to be recorded
Plug headphones into the jack to listen to the tape. (Headphone volume can be adjusted with the
knob just to the right of the headphone jack.)
Use the REC LEVEL knob to adjust the recording level so that the loudest sound never lights the
“OVER” indicator on the peak level meter shown on the display
6. Prepare the tape by cueing it to the place where you want to start the recording
7. Press the RECORD USB buon again. The red indicator above the RECORD USB buon and the REC icon
on the display will remain solid, and the tape will automacally play and begin recording to the USB.
If you want each song to be a separate le, you will need to divide the les manually. This processed is
described on page 30 of the user manual.
8. Press the USB Stop or Cassee Stop to nalize and end the recording. Display will say RECORD ENDING.
For addional informaon, see page 28 of the user manual: tascam.com/content/downloads/products/922/
cd-a580_om_e_vb.pdf